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Byline: Christopher Dickey And Nick Summers The equations that drive the characters in your typical videogame are pretty simple: if punched, then fight. But the new generation of games driven [...]

Byline: Nick Summers SIMON WIESENTHAL, 96 A survivor of 12 concentration camps, Wiesenthal pursued Nazi war criminals around the globe for almost 60 years. The relentless investigator played a role [...]

Byline: Nick Summers Of all the jobs in the newsroom, some seem more likely to cause burnout than others. War correspondent. Obituary writer. City-council-subcommittee-on-zoning-beat writer. But sports reporter? That's what [...]

Byline: Nick Summers The Onion's A.V. Club--the smart, not-made-up pop-culture complement to the weekly's signature fake news items--gets home-page placement in a redesign of theonion.com; a print edition face-lift is [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu, Owen Matthews, Mark Duffy, Joe Cochrane, John Sparks, Elise Soukup, Nick Summers, Nicki Gostin CHINA: Guess Hu's Not Coming To Dinner One might assume that a summit [...]

Byline: Nick Summers When the Africa Channel launches on Sept. 1, network executives hope viewers will notice what's not being broadcast: images of HIV, famine, civil war and the other [...]

Byline: John Barry, Mark Hosenball, Malcolm Beith, Sean Smith, Ginanne Brownell, Andrew Romano, Marites Vitug, John Sparks, Charles Gasparino, Claudia Kalb, Nick Summers and Kevin O'Flynn, Nicki Gostin Iraq: Stepped-Up [...]

Byline: Nick Summers How do you turn the life of Pope John Paul II--actor, foe of Nazism and communism, assassin's target, global icon, spiritual leader to more than a billion [...]

Byline: Nick Summers The tune is peppy: bouncing on a sing-song cadence, it almost bleeds Brylcreem. But what's with the lyrics? 'She's a redheaded atom-bomb baby/A fortified block-busting gal...' And [...]

Byline: Nick Summers Podcasting, that baby medium, is suddenly home to a lot of adult content. Introduced to a mainstream audience just last month, the technology--radio-like programming for your iPod--that [...]

Byline: Nick Summers You're not the only one around town this summer. Rising temperatures mean more bugs. Here are the common offenders--and how you can smack them down. HORNET: Each [...]

Byline: Nick Summers In reaching an agreement to resolve the longest and most destructive labor dispute in sports history last week, pro hockey skated off a very thin patch of [...]

Byline: Nick Summers The concept behind Cereality, the chain of all-cereal-all-the-time stores, sounds like a no-brainer for a college campus: for breakfast, lunch or dinner (or maybe all three), $2.95 [...]

The article discusses the vulnerability of the global economy to disasters, natural or man-made. Firms that maintain lean inventories and have international supply chains are especially prone to disruption. Unlike with much information and communications technology, redundancy in manufacturing or power-generating capacity can be cost-prohibitive. The 2010 eruption of a volcano in Iceland highlighted the dangers.

As a reporter for Newsweek's election book project, in which everything we learn is embargoed until after the votes are cast, I had the unusual circumstance of dealing with Phil [...]

The article talks about the method of robbing automated teller machines (ATMs) in England which uses oxyacetylene bomb to ruin and open the machine. Topics discussed include the use of geolocation device by banking company Barclays to trace the offenders, profiles of the criminals Kurt Beddoes and Craig Cartwright and their team up, and the method of operation involved in blasting an ATM machine. The trial for the group of ATM bombers including the verdict is also mentioned.

* The GIS division at Svilzer Ltd, based in Great Yarmouth, England, delivers a range of GI services to clients in the energy and telecommunications sectors, government agencies, and those [...]

The article focuses on the Coravin 1000 Wine Access System, a wine-keeping system and extractor invented by Greg Lambrecht. Topics include the price of the extractor, how Lambrecht was able to raise the funds to create the extractor, and how businesses that use the product are able to reduce costs on wine.

The article focuses on Courtland Kelley, head of the inspection program at automobile manufacturer General Motors (GM) who sued the company in 2003 for its failure to address safety issues. Topics include the deaths caused by faulty ignition switches on GM Cobalt automobiles, how Kelley's career at the company stalled after his lawsuit, and Kelley's efforts to improve safety at GM. Information is provided on GM chief executive officer (CEO) Marry Barra's apology to the families of those killed by faulty engine switches and the findings of the Valukas Report investigating safety measures at the company.

The article focuses on high technology industries company International Business Machines (IBM). The company's loss of a contract to create a cloud computing system for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to electronic commerce firm Amazon.com is used to illustrate the challenge posed to IBM by the growth of cloud computing, which allows companies to rent software and other technology rather than purchase IBM's software, computer hardware and information technology services. Declining revenues for IBM in 2013-2014 are contrasted with increased earnings per share obtained through cost controls and financial management. The choices facing Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Virginia Rometty are discussed.

The article discusses the Citi Bikes free bicycle sharing program launched by the government of New York City in 2012 with 41 million dollars in funding by financial institution Citigroup. Particular focus is given to the program's success in mitigating public relations damage caused by Citibank's role in the 2008 financial crisis and government bank bailouts, including opinion polls about the firm's social responsibility and celebrity use of the bikes.

The article focuses on the mobile device application Tinder, which allows users to connect to people they find attractive. Topics include the launch of the application's appeal among Millennial smartphone users, the creation of the application in a startup laboratory funded by the startup incubator IAC/InterActiveCorp., and the leadership of chief executive officer Sean Rad.

The article discusses businessman and investor Steve Case as of August 2013, focusing on Case's 40 million dollar investment in the Bigcommerce startup company, as well as information on Case's role as the co-founder of the American Online (AOL) Internet service provider. Case's venture capital firm Revolution is mentioned, along with its funding of companies such as the car-sharing firm Zipcar. Case's meetings U.S. President Barack Obama and other politicians in Washington, D.C. are examined.

The article discusses the hedge fund manager and investor David Einhorn, founder of the hedge fund Greenlight Capital, with information on the accuracy of his stock market predictions. Topics include the financial market reaction and the actions of money managers in response to a speech by Einhorn at the 2012 Ira W. Sohn Investment Research Conference; Einhorn's advice regarding investments in shares of the consumer electronics company Apple Inc.; and Einhorn's reputation as a short seller of securities whose value he predicts will decrease.

The article discusses a contest devised by Tim Harrington, Brian Tomeo, and Spencer Deering to determine which hedge funds they would invest in. The event they created, Battle-Fin, involves hedge-fund contestants being judged on how they handle real money in real time. Details are presented about the experiences of fund managers and contestants Alon Bochman, Martin Rosenburgh, and others.

The article discusses former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson. Paulson regrets his actions in allowing Lehman Brothers to fail and file for bankruptcy as many believe this was a catalyst in the financial crisis facing the U.S. He states that he did not understand the trouble with the housing market in 2006 when banks were selling mortgages as complex securities.

The article discusses tactics used by 2008 presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama to motivate people to vote for them. Obama reluctantly agreed to allow rap musician Jay-Z to perform concerts in support of Obama where people could register to vote. McCain did not do very well at getting people to vote and was not as popular as Obama.

The article discusses the 2008 presidential campaign of President-Elect Barack Obama. One of Obama's biggest concerns was whether his former rival in the primaries, Hillary Clinton, would support him or sabotage him. However, at the Democratic convention, both Hillary and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, gave speeches endorsing Obama. He chose Joseph Biden to be his vice-president because he felt Biden offered experience that would be useful.

The article comments on the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign of failed candidate John McCain who is depicted as a moody and strong-willed candidate who preferred to speak impetuously rather than follow a scripted speech. The author says that this habit caused him to occasionally work against his own campaign. McCain is compared with Barack Obama who is said to be a skilled speaker. The use of negative campaign strategy is mentioned.

The article discusses the Democratic primary elections in 2008 between Senator Hillary Clinton and President-Elect Barack Obama. The primary elections were extremely difficult for both Clinton and Obama, and Hillary's husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, frequently grew angry over what he considered to be favoritism by the mainstream media toward Obama. Obama, an African American, was sabotaged by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, who brought race into the forefront of the campaigns.

The article discusses the presidential campaign of 2008 U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama. Obama is African American, but throughout his life, he was always able to avoid discussing politics in terms of race. In 2006 political activists George Stevens and Gregory Craig listened to a speech he made while serving as an Illinois Senator and told him he should run for president. He was successful, but had some difficulty defeating Senator Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary elections.

The article discusses the popularity, growth and expansion plans of the social networking Web site Facebook. The site has become an integral part of the life of college and high school students. Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard University sophomore, started it in February 2004, and later moved to Santa Clara Valley, California. Currently he is attempting to mass-market the site. If Zuckerberg succeeds in his plans much of what people do on the Internet will be accomplished within Facebook.

Looks at how the video game industry is taking steps to develop products that appeal to the female demographic. Suggestion that the industry's bias against women players is so ingrained that the size of the current female market is largely unknown; Comments regarding the issue from Dan Morris, editor in chief of "PC Gamer" magazine and Ankarino Lara, director of GameSpot.com; Author's view that girl gamers were largely hidden from view until the videogame "The Sims" brought them out in the 1990s.

The article discusses Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of the bank JPMorgan Chase, and his statement before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee regarding his firm's financial losses.

The article offers information and a photograph of professional basketball player Jeremy Lin for the Knicks basketball team.

The article offers a photograph and brief information about the career of alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn and discusses the skiing World Cup, her divorce from her husband, and her friendship with athlete Tim Tebow.

The article focuses on Usain Bolt, a Jamaican runner who won two gold medals at the track and field world championships in Daegu, South Korea, by running the 200 meter with the fourth fasted time in world history and anchoring his relay team to a world record time.

The article discusses competition between Apple Inc. and Google inc. in the market for mobile devices. Apple's iPhone smartphone and iPad tablet computer have proven very popular with consumers. Google has made its Android mobile operating system available for free to smartphone manufacturers. Apple prefers to keep its hardware and software proprietary, while Google wants to distribute its software as widely as possible among developers.

The article discusses China's economic development and information policy. The article talks about the effect that the Communist Party has had on China, including limits on the economy and personal liberty. Particular attention is given to China's relationship with the Internet and search engines such as Google.

Reports that doctors investigating lead poisoning at Children's Hospital Boston found spices were a source of lead. Indication that the cooking spices were purchased from street vendors in India and Republic of Georgia; Speculation on how lead got into the spices; Comment of researcher Dr. Alan Woolf; The journal where the study is published.

The article focuses on the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to slow its bond purchasing scheme and its impact on global markets. Topics include U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's reasoning for the tapering of the U.S. monetary stimulus program, the drop in U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the first quarter of 2013, and the economic recovery of the U.S. economy.

An interview with Steve Inskeep, radio talk show host on National Public Radio (NPR), is presented. Topics include political stability in Pakistan, the role of women in the city of Karachi in Pakistan, the resignation of the chief executive officer of NPR in the spring of 2011, and a search of Inskeep's name on the internet search engine Google.

The article looks at an educational program and school developed by teacher Simon Hauger, called the Sustainability Workshop, a pilot project based learning program for high school seniors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

An interview with the Oakland Athletic's baseball team's General Manager and owner Billie Beane is presented, where he discusses fairness in major-league baseball, compares this inequality to that of the National Football League (NFL), and discusses his feelings about actor Brad Pitt portraying him in a movie.